Peter Max

News about Peter Max, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Oct. 26, 2014

Group of Chevrolet aficionados led by Peter Heller have purchased so-called Peter Max Corvettes, 36 cars formerly owned by the Pop Art star that span the model's entire existence since 1953; cars are undergoing restoration following decades of sub-par storage in various New York City garages. MORE

Nov. 10, 2013

Exhibit Peter Max, at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, includes pen-and-ink drawings never before shown publicly along with Max's well-known, colorful psychedelic paintings (Metropolitan/Long Island). MORE

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November 10, 2013, Sunday

Insurance industry estimates suggest that insurance losses for flooded galleries and ruined art after Hurricane Sandy may come to as much as $500 million - or the rough equivalent of what the art insurance business takes in each year, Reuters...

December 28, 2012, Friday

The output of Taylor Swift has been known to elicit all sortsof reactions; in the case of the pop artist Peter Max it has inspired him to create this latest work (at right) in a series of paintings based on Ms. Swift's album covers. Mr. Max, whose...

February 14, 2010, Sunday

IT is known as the ''She House,'' a home touted as being designed with a woman's needs and desires in mind. The retreat is on nearly an acre of some of the most desirable real estate on the Island, professionally decorated down to the fluffy...

Drawing Them In The Westchester Arts Council brings a touch of Chelsea to White Plains each year with its free Open Studios weekends. Artists mingle with art lovers, whether browsers or buyers, and visitors roam the eight-story Arts Exchange...

May 25, 2003, Sunday

It seems an unlikely marriage: Peter Max, the psychedelic art phenomenon from the 1960's, and this faded river city. But Mr. Max, who is still going strong, has set his sights on a building here to house his creative vision, and city leaders are...

After promising for weeks that he was making progress on assembling a decency panel to review art in publicly financed museums, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has come up with a list that includes members of his administration, friendly clerics and his...